V. I. Lenin

By Direct Line To Zinoviev, The Smolny, Petrograd

Written:27 July, 1918First Published:1942 inLenin Miscellany XXXIV; Published according to the manuscriptSource:Lenin’sCollected 
Works, 4th English Edition, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 
1972 Volume 27, pages 549-550Translated:Clemens Dutt; Edited by Robert DaglishTranscription/HTML Markup:David Walters & Robert CymbalaOnline Version:Lenin Internet
    	ArchiveMarch, 2002

News has just been received that Alexeyev in the Kuban area, with about sixty thousand men, is advancing against us, carrying out the plan for a combined attack by the Czechoslovaks, the British and the Alexeyev Cossacks. In view of this, and in view of the statement of the Petrograd workers, Kayurov, Chugurin and others, who have arrived here, that Petrograd could provide ten times as many if it were not for the opposition of the Petrograd section of the C.C.in view of this I categorically and imperatively insist on the cessation of all opposition and on the dispatch from Petrograd of ten times as many workers. That is the demand of the C.C. of the Party.

I categorically warn you that the Republic is in a dangerous situation and that the Petrograders, by holding up dispatch of workers from Petrograd to the Czech front, will make themselves responsible for the possible downfall of our whole cause.

N.B. Return me this paper with a note of the time

It was transmitted to the Smolny in Petrograd.